Run, Hide, Fight: Instructional Video for Surviving the American Destabilization Campaign

by Scott Creighton

The Department of Homeland Security and the city of Houston have put out a video instructing corporate America how to survive what they call an “active shooter event”

Once again, the rampaging “terrorist” is a white guy between the ages of 25-40 or so. They suggest you run or hide. In the end, they suggest you improvise a weapon and fight.

Notice, they don’t suggest you have a legal firearm and a conceal carry permit. No, they suggest you grab a plastic coffee pot or an ashtray and ambush the guy carrying an assault rifle. How do you suppose that will work out?

This short film was produced by Ready Houston Tx before the Aurora massacre but only released a few days ago.

Congress Wants to See Obama’s “License to Kill”

from Mother Jones

But if they get it, they won’t be allowed to show it to you.

Congress is finally standing up to President Barack Obama on targeted killing. Almost a year after three American citizens were killed in US drone strikes, legislators are pushing the administration to explain why it believes it’s legal to kill American terror suspects overseas.

Congress is considering two measures that would compel the Obama administration to show members of Congress what Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) calls Obama’s “license to kill”: internal memos outlining the legal justification for killing Americans overseas without charge or trial. Legislators have been asking administration officials to release the documents for nearly a year, raising the issue multiple times in hearings and letters. But the new proposals, including one from Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) first flagged by blogger Marcy Wheeler and another in a separate intelligence bill, aren’t requests—they would mandate disclosure. That shift shows both Republicans and Democrats are growing impatient with the lack of transparency on targeted killings…

… The New York Times has confirmed the existence of a secret memo from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)—the branch of the government that tells the president whether what he wants to do is legal—outlining the legal basis for the targeted killing program. But the Obama administration has yet to acknowledge that any such memo exists, despite defending the targeted killing policy in speeches and public appearances, and is currently fighting an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit that seeks to force the government to reveal the legal justification for targeted killing. Now Congress seems to be moving towards the ACLU’s position.

[read the rest, here]

Leon Panetta Threatens the Family of Assad

by Scott Creighton

Leon Panetta must be removed from office. Yesterday on CNN he publicly threatened the family of President Assad of Syria.

“If you want to be able to protect yourself and your family, you’d better get the hell out now.” Leon Panetta on CNN “security” Blog

Threatening the lives of national leaders is almost commonplace with American politicians,but threatening the lives of their families is beyond reprehensible… it’s thuggish and cowardly and makes this country look like nothing more than vile gangsters leading cowardly sheep.

These photos of the Assad family came out a little while ago. I don’t know how old the pictures are but these are the people that our Secretary of Defense and former head of the CIA just publicly threatened to murder…

UPDATE: “The Only Remaining Online Copy of Vogue’s Asma al-Assad Profile“

Aurora Massacre: Update

by Scott Creighton

6 year old children draw better than this with dull crayons

Yesterday, James Holmes heard charges against him in Arapahoe County District Court. According to reports, it was the defense attorneys who requested that District Chief Judge William Sylvester ban video and still cameras from the courtroom during Monday’s hearing.

Why would his defense do that? You would think they would want the public to see how out of it Holmes is because clearly she is going for an insanity plea. So why would she want to keep the people from seeing him? Is it because they are keeping him drugged to the gills whenever he is in a situation where he is in the public view for fear he might say something like “I’m just the patsy”? Whatever the reason, here in the information age of the 21st century, this is what justice is boiled down to: secret trials based on secret evidence.

Holmes has been charged with 24 counts of murder… 2 for each of his victims. I won’t go into how they came to that conclusion.

Again they are challenging the official story of the “stick figure drawing confession” book. The prosecution claims the early reports about what was in that book are wrong because they hadn’t even opened the package when those stories came out. Kinda dug themselves into a hole there: if it turns out there are “stick figure” confessions in that book, that leaves the prosecution to explain how someone knew what was in the book before looking at it. Hmmm….

“Authorities seized the package July 23, three days after the shooting, after finding it in the mailroom of the medical campus where Holmes studied. Several media outlets reported that it contained a notebook with descriptions of an attack, but Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chambers said in court papers that the parcel hadn’t been opened by the time the “inaccurate” news reports appeared….” The Blaze

Talk about trying someone in the press. This guy claims it ain’t a “whodunit” mystery but rather a question of whether or not Holmes is clinically insane. Well, I beg to differ… if he was passed out cold when the cops found him and they needed a spine board to move him, and there’s that extra gas mask sitting way over next to the main street, I would say it is kinda a whodunit mystery, isn’t it?

“I don‘t think it’s too hard to predict the path of this proceeding,” said Craig Silverman, a former chief deputy district attorney in Denver. “This is not a whodunit. … The only possible defense is insanity.” The Blaze

I also read somewhere that Holmes again appeared drugged out of his gourd during the hearing.

“There is a natural order to this world, and those who try to upend it do not fare well” – Cloud Atlas Trailer

I never promote anything on this site and I’m certainly not paid to do this but after all the time I have spent flushing out the steady stream of sophomoric, ham-handed propaganda coming out of Hollywood these days, it’s nice to sit back and present this extended trailer for a film that appears to be written at above a 6th grader’s comprehension level which would appear to present an idea wholly different that the “dog eat dog” ideology of neo-liberalism and libertarianism and corporatism that we are fed day in and day out. It’s nice every now and again, to focus on art that lifts rather than degrades. According to the directors it took them a year to get a Hollywood studio to distribute the film. It was funded by German companies… apparently no one with cash in the US wanted to make it.

From the creators of the Matrix… Cloud Atlas

I believe there is another world, a better world. I’ll be waiting for you  there

Dawood National Military Hospital, Afghanistan: What Happened and What Went Wrong?

by Scott Creighton

Perhaps the most horrific story on the brutality of the Afghan occupation that you are going to see all year. They tried to cover it up for various reasons; they didn’t want bad press coming out of Afghanistan and at least one 3 star general didn’t want to embarrass President Obama before the election. An 11.2 billion dollar training program paid for by the US taxpayers. The hospital is run at a level of malfeasance that goes well beyond what any sane person would call corruption. Doctors and nurses forcing the families of the soldiers to pay bribes for the treatment of their loved ones. Medications being routinely sold on the black market to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Death squads roaming the hallways…. all of this under the watchful eye of the US trainers who were there and on staff. The photos at the Information Clearinghouse site (link below) are grotesque to say the least. And this went on for years. Gen. Petraeus was apparently briefed on this years ago and did nothing. He now runs the CIA as a proxy for Panetta. The conditions these soldiers were kept in rivals anything that I have heard of being done to POWs in Vietnam or even Japan.

Colonel Gerald Nicholas Carozza: “Patients were lying in filth, in some cases starving and with grotesque bed sores. One patient was on the brink of starving to death.”…

…“The Patients’ Bill of Rights posters were found ripped off the walls lying on the ground torn to pieces ‘to allow for painting of the walls.’”…

…Colonel Schuyler K. Geller: “Afghan soldiers’ families have sold their farms and indentured themselves for healthcare in the US- and coalition-supported Daoud Khan Hospital.”

This story is getting very little attention from the MSM. Here is the hearing…

The Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense, and Foreign Operations held a hearing entitled, “Dawood National Military Hospital, Afghanistan: What Happened and What Went Wrong?” on July 24, 2012.

Go here to view photos and read the congressional testimony.